LaVar Arrington

LaVar Arrington was the second overall pick in the 2000 NFL Draft, selected by the Washington Redskins after a college career at Penn State. He played linebacker for seven seasons in the NFL, also spending time with the New York Giants. Since retiring, Arrington has built a long broadcasting career — he worked Redskins pregame and postgame coverage on Comcast SportsNet starting in 2007, hosted "The LaVar Arrington Show with Chad Dukes" on 106.7 The Fan in Washington, and later joined NFL Network's NFL AM program in 2014. He spent time as a football analyst on FS1's "Speak For Yourself" before teaming up with Brady Quinn and Jonas Knox in September 2021 for "2 Pros and a Cup of Joe," Fox Sports Radio's morning drive show. On the podcast, Arrington regularly makes picks against the spread and offers takes on everything from NFL rosters and divisional races to the Combine and surprise teams.

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Is LaVar Arrington accurate? Across 90 graded calls in 16 articles, LaVar Arrington scores 47.67% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of -7.76, which means their calls were worse than a naive guess on the same claims. That is a limited sample, under thirty graded articles, so treat it with caution.

47.67%

Accuracy

How often they were right.

-7.76

MissedTakes Score

Versus a naive guess. 0 means no better.

Graded calls

across 16 articles. 6 more not yet settled.

A limited sample — under 30 graded articles.

100% of their claims were specific enough to check. Most of what they said committed to something.

Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below shows its own arithmetic.

Graded calls · 90

2 of 16 graded articles on this page, newest first — page 3 of 3.

Arrington picked division winners in both conferences, had Baltimore beating Buffalo to reach the Super Bowl and Philadelphia beating Green Bay in the NFC, with the Ravens winning it all.19 graded calls · Sep 4, 2025
- Los Angeles Chargers to win the division
  “Cincinnati into AFC, Buffalo, Houston and the Chargers as divisional or conference the division champion”
  Miss · 0Scored 0a naive guess scored 0+0 skill
  How this was scored
  skill:
  0
  method:
  division winners read off the bracket: the bye teams and the wild-card hosts
  they picked:
  LAC
  season:
  2025
  accuracy:
  0
  baseline:
  0
  the naive pick:
  KC
  difficulty:
  2

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